First show of 2014, yay! one more then its NAMM, we start with a blast of Jems Emax 2 sampler, then we're on to the film music composers roundtable from Hollywood Reporter, and interesting watch, next University of Tokyo's experiments in levitation using sound waves, Youtube are the only game in town, Eventide's Mood plugin gets us thinking, and synth supergroup Node have a new album out.

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Glad to see some Emax II action. It was my first real sampler (Casio SK-1 doesn't count), and I still have it. The SE Synthesis (sine waves) and Transform Multiplicaton (sound morphing) features are really cool. It has a great arpeggiator section. The TED Talk on cymatics is an older version of the sound wave manipulation stuff, very cool...